[Sheepdog] partition recovery algorithm

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Tue Nov 3 08:56:31 CET 2009


> > But how do you compare data? I mean you need to make sure data all
> nodes have exactly the same data. Are you using some kind of
> hash/digest (tiger hash, merkle tree)?
> 
> Sorry, it seems I was misunderstood.
> Did you mention about a network partition problem (split-brain)?

Yes, I am talking about network partition problem (split brain).

> Sheepdog does not have the tolerance for network partition
> in current implementation.
> We think of using a majority voting algorithm to deal with this
> problem,
> but details have not been discussed enough.

Ok,

Dietmar




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